297596 - memory usage climbs continuously as each image loads until system is out of RAM

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

memory usage climbs continuously as each image loads until system is out of RAM

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. just open firefox and goto the url http://http://search.boobdex.com/?lid=150444
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Actual Results:  
Extended RAM usage rises until out

Expected Results:  
The RAM usage should not do that, the page loads fine in IE without doing what
Firefox does

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050613
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005061303

WFM

Firefox uses ~ 40MB ram with several other tabs open.

Could you please download a recent nightly build from 
<http://www.mozilla.org/releases/nightly.html>, and see if the problem still exists.

Comment 2

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4
WFM

Comment 3

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Marking WFM, I presume the reporter closing as fixed meant that the problem no
longer occurs.

Mike in future please comment when changing a bug status. Also bugs for which
the exact fix is unknown are worksforme not fixed.